A remote fire weather station/3.4 mi away/4,478 ft/294 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/South Dakota/Wind Cave National Park
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota
National Park in Custer County, South Dakota72°
87°/56°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 72°·Light breeze 6 mph NNW
Now. Wind Cave National Park is 72° and mostly clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 60° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 85°, and the coolest Sunday, near 58°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waning crescent, 24% lit, and rises at 2:18 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. Look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 33 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
49Air quality
27%Humidity
23%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
72feels72
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 5
8756
clear day
Tue
Oct 6
8560
clear day
Wed
Oct 7
7655
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 8
7252
clear day
Fri
Oct 9
7953
clear day
Sat
Oct 10
8260
14mph
Sun
Oct 11
5852
21%
16mph
72°
87°56°
85°60°
76°55°
72°52°
79°53°
82°60°
58°52°
As of 8:00 PM in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Wind Cave National Park
Index 49, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Wind Cave (SD), 3 miles off.
49Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good3.1 mi
- Ozone49Good58 ppb3.1 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)11Good3.1 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 43, good.
GoodModerate
- 43YesterdayOct 4
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 12 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wind Cave National Park
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Wind Cave National Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 12 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Park
- Area
- 53 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 4,184 ft
- County
- Custer County
- State
- South Dakota
- Latitude
- 43.5802° N
- Longitude
- 103.4311° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Wind Cave National Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SD RWIS PringleSD055
Beside a road/8.2 mi away/4,869 ft/685 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CusterCUT
At an airfield/13.9 mi away/5,534 ft/1,350 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1464GW1464
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.4 mi away/5,642 ft/1,458 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hot Springs 7.9 NSD-CS-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/4,150 ft/34 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wind CaveWNDS2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.3 mi away/4,229 ft/45 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Wind Cave (WNDS2), 3.3 miles from here, read 4 Oct, 13:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in South Dakota
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
AberdeencityBadlandsfeatureBelle FourchecityBlack Elk PeakfeatureBlack HillsfeatureBrookingscityCustercityDeadwoodcityGreat Bearski areaHot SpringscityHuroncityLake OahefeatureLeadcityMitchellcityPierrecityRapid CitycitySioux FallscitySpearfishcitySturgiscityTerry Peakski areaVermillioncityWatertowncityWind Cave National ParkfeatureYanktoncity
Near Wind Cave National Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pringletown, 8 mi
- Buffalo Gaptown, 8 mi
- Hot Springscity, 10 mi
- Maverick Junctioncommunity, 12 mi
- Fairburntown, 13 mi
- Oralcommunity, 14 mi
- Custercity, 15 mi
- Angosturacommunity, 18 mi
- Black Elk Peakfeature, 20 mi
- Black Hillsfeature, 21 mi
- Hermosatown, 22 mi
- Smithwickcommunity, 22 mi